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In theory at least Oregon State University (OSU) seems to
be a bastion of academic freedom, diversity, and tolerance. A wide range of
ideas are openly discussed. The most viable rise to the top and the least
viable fade away. But it is all a fairy tale, because OSU operates under a
politically correct regimen that dictates what is acceptable to say and what is
not. Transgressors who dare to be different are eventually weeded out so that
the campus maintains its ideological purity.

OSU is not yet as swift or efficient as the Soviet system
when Joseph Stalin was trying to quash dissent among biologists who refused to
go along with Trofim Lysenko. If warnings to compromise their integrity were
not followed, Stalin simply had biologists shot. That quickly thinned the ranks
of all biologists and persuaded the remaining ones to comply with Stalin's
wishes. Of course, it also destroyed Soviet biology, because Lysenko was
pedaling nonsense. And Russian biology has never recovered.

We learned over the weekend that chemist Nickolas Drapela,
PhD has been summarily fired from his position as a "Senior Instructor" in the
Department of Chemistry. The department chairman Richard Carter told him that
he was fired but would not provide any reason. Subsequent attempts to extract a
reason from the OSU administration have been stonewalled. Drapela appears to
have been highly competent and well-liked by his students. Some have even taken
up the fight to have him reinstated.

What could possibly have provoked the OSU administration
to take precipitous action against one of their academics who has been on their
staff for ten years, just bought a house in Corvallis, and has four young
children (one with severe medical problems)? Dr. Drapela is an outspoken critic
of the theory of Anthropogenic Global Warming, the official religion of the
State of Oregon, the Oregon Democratic Party, and Governor John Kitzhaber.

Five years ago, Oregon State Climatologist George Taylor
went around quietly saying that he was not a believer. Then Governor Ted
Kulongoski and many faculty at OSU including Dr. Jane Lubchenco made life
impossible for Taylor, and he retired. (Lubchenco is now head of NOAA in the
Obama administration.) Under those currently in charge, OSU climate research
has grown to be a huge business, reportedly $90 million per year with no real
deliverables beyond solid academic support for climate hysteria. A small army
of researchers ponder the effects of Global Warming on all sorts of things from
tube worms living along the Oregon Coast to butterflies inland. When the
climate refuses to warm (as it has for the last twenty years), they just study
'warming in reverse!' Most of us call that "cooling," but they are very careful
not to upset their Obama administration contract monitors with politically
incorrect terminology.

Skeptics of Global Warming who oppose the OSU approach and
oppose the politicians who make it all possible but do not work for OSU also
find themselves attacked. Dr. Art Robinson who is running against Peter DeFazio
for an Oregon Congressional seat found three of his children under attack at
OSU. All were attempting to obtain advanced degrees in the Nuclear Engineering
Department and were threatened with dismissal. Because Robinson fought back, we
understand that the OSU administration backed down.

As to the latest victim of political correctness at OSU,
Dr. Nickolas Drapela gives us an excellent synopsis of what is going on:

"The fact of the matter is that it is now two weeks since
I was fired and no one has had the cajones or the common courtesy to even tell
me why. I have spoken with the Dept. Chair (Rich Carter) who fired me, and he
refused to tell me why. I spoke to the Dean of Science (Vince Remcho) and he
couldn't tell me why. I spoke to HR who set up a meeting with me, then
cancelled it an hour before. Then I went to the Vice President of Academic
Affairs (Becky Warner) and she sent me back to Rich Carter, the chemistry chair.

It's just a sad, sad state of affairs that an institution
like OSU would fire a good employee for (ostensibly) no reason and then run
around and hide from the person they fired. I had stellar teaching evaluations,
I won College of Science awards for teaching, and published textbooks. My class
sections were always full and I was well-liked by students (see
ratemyprofessors.com). I was doing my job very well. But I guess I didn't
march in step with their philosophies.

There were quite a few student protests over this at OSU
(Barometer, Facebook, etc.) but to no avail.

I was given no severance and had no warning this was about
to happen. In fact, I was lured into the chair's office under the guise of a
fallacious story before being fired.

As you know, I was probably the most visibly-outspoken
critic of the Global Warming doctrine at OSU. I gave several public talks on
the topic and did research in the area which I regularly posted on the web. I
was also on a few talk radio shows in the area. I think they finally just said,
we can't have this.

Can it be that a university whose motto is "Open minds.
Open doors" cannot abide even one faculty member who disagrees with their dogma?
I suppose I am too naive, but I'm still reeling from it. Unbelievable.

I should say that they regularly read all my email
communications, which is why I am writing from this private email address. That
has been going on for quite some time now.

As far as my options at this point, like I said I haven't
even really grasped what has just happened. I don't know what I'm going to do,
or what options I have yet. I'm sure OSU wants their story to be tight and
perfectly identical among all administration before coming out with an official
reason why I was fired, hence the long wait and refusal to speak to me.

I truly thank you for your concern, and I hope there is
some recourse, even just for the sake of exposing what is happening at OSU."

In a separate e-mail Drapela went on to say:

"Thanks so much for your support and your concern. That's
really nice. My students were all really upset about it. They started an email
writing campaign to have me re-hired but I guess no one cares what they think.

I find that the people who want to keep things secret all
the time are usually the people that have something to hide. It is certainly ok
by me for you to disseminate this story. But I'm sure OSU would be horrified.

I'm not sure how I will support my family at this point.
We just bought a house in Corvallis. I have four kids, one of whom has a rare,
blood disorder and requires regular trips to Doernbecher's Children's Hospital
for treatment. Now we will be without health insurance."

We can only speculate as to how the decision to fire
Drapela was made. Unlike the decision to force Taylor out (which came from the
governor's office), this decision was likely internal to OSU with the implicit
backing of Governor Kitzhaber and NOAA administrator Lubchenco. I would suspect
that Dr. Phil Mote (Director of their Climate Change Research Institute) had a
hand in the decision, because he has previously been highly intolerant of those
who oppose his ideas and could potentially threaten his business empire.

Please join with me in supporting Nick Drapela. Please
join with me in supporting objective science, as well as academic freedom,
diversity, and tolerance. The issues here go far beyond just Global Warming and
strike at the very heart of who we are as scientists and Americans.

Gordon J. Fulks, PhD (Physics) Corbett, Oregon USA

P.S. Please circulate this e-mail far and wide. The world
needs to know what is going on here.

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